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I'. E. S'HAUT.

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Patented Nov. 221892..

@MTE STATES' PATENT OFFICEg FREDERICK E. SHAUT, OF CANISTEO, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR OF ONF-HALF Y TO JOSEPH E. SHAUT, OF SAME PLACE.

BELT-FASTEN ER.

SPEGIFICATION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,570, dated November22, 1892.

Application filed May 10, 1892. Serial No. 432,501. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. SHAUT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Canisteo, in the county of Steuben and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Belt- Fastener, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to belt-fasteners; and it consists of theconstruction and arrc rangement of the parts thereof, as will be morefully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to provide means for preventing tearingaway of the belt fabric at the point where it is fastened by providingmetallic binding or wear strips on and against which the devices used incoupling the two ends of the belt have direct bearing and receive allthe strain incident to zo devices of this character.

In the drawings,pFigure l is a perspective view of the two end portionsof a belt, showing the improved coupling applied in connectiontherewith. Fig. 2 is a section on the line m Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailperspective view of the parts of the belt-fastening detached andseparated. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a different meansof coupling the ends of the belt.

3o Similar numerals of reference are used to indicate correspondingparts in the several figures. v

Referring to the drawings, the numerals l and 2 designate the twoopposite ends of a belt to which are riveted or otherwise fastened twometallic Strips or bars 3, which are located adjacent to the edges orends of the two portions of the belt which are fastened or coupled. Theouter ends or edges 4 of the 4c said strips or bars 3 -are doubledunder, rolled, or swaged down in order to avoid the formation of acutting edge or end, which would produce injury to the belt at saidpoints, and also to increase the resistance against wear and strainbrought to bear on said strips or bars at said ends.

As shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, metallic clips 5 have bearing on the saidstrips or bars 3, and the ends of the same are bent and passed 5othrough openings 6, situated adjacent to the ends or edges 4 of the saidstrips or bars and have their ends clinched or turned against the underside of the two opposite end portions of the belt. As seen in Fig. 4, alacing 7 is substituted in lieu of the clips 5, and in 55 this instancea number of openings 8 are formed in the two opposite end portions ofthe belt adjacent to and also a slight distance in rear of the edges orends 4 of the strips or bars 3. When the openings are constructed 6o inthe belt ends, they are arranged to the best advantage-that is, to avoidweakening the belt ends as much as possible. The rivets or other meansof fastening the strips or bars 3 in position are located near theopposite ends of the said strips or bars adjacent to the edges of thebelt, which also prevents separation of the fiber of belt andconsequently reduces the tendency to fracture the same when strain isbrought to bear thereon. 7o

The fastener set forth is exceptionally strong and durable, as well assimple in construction and cheap in manufacture, and is readily andeasily applied. It will not tear out or cause breaking of the belt whereapplied, and thereby the annoyance and inconvenience arising fromseparation and fracture of the belt is entirely avoided. The metalemployed for the construction of the several partswill be of the mostdesirable and appli- 8o cable quality and nature and the invention as anentirety can be employed in connection with belt fabrics of any class.

It will be understood that there is no limitation intended by showingthe two forms of 8 5 couplings, as any form of such device may bereadily used with equal efliciency. The metallic clips are preferredbecause of their durability and cheapness and the quick manner in whichthey can be applied. By using 9o rivets to connect the strips or bars inposition a more even drawing is exerted on the belt, which will avoidtearing out, and the belt' will break as quickly in other localities, ifat all, as it would at the points where the rivets pass through thesame.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is l. ln abelt-fastening, the combination of two independent iiat plates securedon the roo two adjacent ends of the belt by means of rivets passingtherethrough and through the belt and arranged in a median line throughthe length of each of the plates, said plates being the length of thewidth of the belt and the rear edge of each bent nnderand slightlyupward, and a coupling passing over and nnder the said plates andthrough the belt and bearing on the rear bent-under edges of the saidplates, the said plates being applied to the upper side of the belt andthe entire fastening forming a hinge for the two ends of the belt,substantially as described.

2. In a belt-fastening, the combination of two strips or bars secured onthe two opposite ends of the belt by means of rivets and hav-

